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January 8th, 2007
This module actually looks like hell of a breath of fresh air compared to recent drudging through essays and programming. Taught by Plymouth’s professor of AI, Angelo Cangelosi.
Using a touch sensitive screen to select an area to zoom to within my camera interface.
November 9th, 2006
Its nice sometimes how the various different modules overlap in a timely manner. Seems my recently completed Langston’s Ant java application has become quite relevant to the idat203 critical contexts piece, which yes I am still adding to even now.
Is to be replaced this week (tomorrow) by game of life.
Looking into the lovely 4000 word essay… Firstly I need to decide on the problem that my HCI orientated interface needs to solve.
Here starts the second (of four) part of the idat204 module with Professor Vladimir Geroimenko who certainly knows his XML and Semantic Web. Looks like we’ll be having to make an application for the semantic web.
October 25th, 2006
Not a great amount of time has been available for blogging so here is an update:
In addition to the current projects with rapidly approaching deadlines we have been introduced to a small mid-term exam from soft221. Marvellous stuff.
HCI (Human Computer Interaction or isad223) will be wanting coursework done by the end of this term, involving the creation of an interface based on the design techniques learnt here. That would be a four thousand word essay comprising 100% of the overall mark for this module.
Simulacrum (trans-spacial design) admittedly has been in the pipeline for a while but at least there are a number of thoughts as to an idea (I like this project as its the first that asks for a reasonable amount of creativity from my part - yes thats not f*ing actionscripting aka java) if not much to show for it yet. I have effectively what I want to create planned out already, but more of that to be revealed soon…
Idat203 - Critical Contexts, what else can be said? The ‘other’ four thousand word essay comes to mind.
Orrrrganism project proceeds and has a week-before-deadline deadline tomorrow, hence this is my current activity. The flowers grow, the bees move. The flowers currently undertake a form of assexual reproduction though, and literally create a clone seed of themselves which is planted and grows and seeds etc.
For the Creative Garden company, our chosen niche of professional school and college websites seems very fruitful.
Oh yes and finally, I still want to create a working new design for my own website!
Based on a couple of puzzles I received a long time ago, this flash generates a random puzzle and then jumbles the pieces up for the player to solve.
The flash actionscript behind this is flexible enough to allow for any size
puzzle to be created and jumbled as many times as I like. In addition to this,
the difficulty of rotating pieces is also a feature.
